In Office 2013 and Office 2016, there's no longer a built-in clip art library. But you can install an Office add-in named Pickit that puts free, licensed clip art in Office, or you can find pictures online.

Free image library: the Pickit add-in

Click a section title below to open it and read detailed instructions.

You can use any search site you like to find clip art or images to insert in your Office document. The basic process is approximately this:

In your web browser, go to the search site, type appropriate keywords to search on, and press Enter. Then examine the results that are returned to you.

When you find a satisfactory image, right-click it and select a command that is something like Copy image.

Switch to your Office document and press Ctrl+V to paste the image in place.

How you lay out the image in precisely the right place depends on the Office app you're using. Often, clicking and dragging is enough, but Word has extra fine-tuning features. For details, see Use Word Layout Options to move pictures.

Insert Office clip art

On the Insert tab of the toolbar ribbon, in the Images section, select Clip Art.

The Clip Art task panel appears on the right side of the application window.

In the Search for box, type keywords that describe the art you're looking for.

Under Results should be, select the types of media you want included in the search results:

Ensure that Include Bing content is selected if you're connected to the internet and want images from the web included in your search results.

Turning on this option gives you more search results to choose from. (Otherwise, leave that box cleared, and you'll only receive search results from the pictures installed on your computer by Office 2010.)

Select Go to start the search.

The search results are shown in the task panel.

You can scroll vertically if the results don't all fit in the task pane.

To see a larger version of a thumbnail image in the result list, or to simply see the image if all that is shown is a small red x placeholder, right-click the thumbnail and select Preview/Properties.

While you're in the Preview/Properties window, you can browse through the images by selecting Previous and Next.

To insert a picture in your document, right-click the thumbnail image in the task panel, and select Insert.

Once the image is inserted, you can adjust its placement by selecting it and dragging with the mouse.

Insert a picture from the web

You can also find images on the web by switching to your web browser and going to any search engine, such as Bing.

Search for the kind of image you want.

Once you've selected an image, right-click it and choose the Copy command.

Switch back to your Office document and press Ctrl+V to paste the image.

Select the pasted image and drag with your mouse to move it to the position you want.

If necessary, use the sizing handles on the border of the image to change its size.